Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uniformed butlers glide around serving executives catered gourmet lunches at their desks. Many clients receive annual invitations to conferences like one held in July at New York's Waldorf-Astoria. In 1992, on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, Investcorp threw a lavish party at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Guests nibbled on caviar served from ice sculptures and strolled under garlands of peonies adorned with caged songbirds. When major deals are in the works, senior executives zoom across the Atlantic on the Concorde. "They fly the Concorde if they want a salami sandwich," jokes a former bank adviser...
...Abraham Lincoln wrote in a letter to Albert G. Hodges, "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Lincoln was often extremely modest, but this remark was the result of more than humility. Lincoln, particularly as the Civil War stretched into its fourth year, was painfully aware of how much was beyond his control. David Herbert Donald in his biography Lincoln carefully examines the life of Abraham Lincoln from his birth in rural Kentucky through his death...
...other students pointed to a renewed interest in activism on the part of student in general. PAN cofounder Eric D. Albert '98 pointed to the contrast between yesterday's protest and a similar rally held in Boston last spring to protest Gingrich's "Contract with America...
Only about five Harvard student showed up at that demonstration, Albert said...
...Together with the U.C., we were able to publicize this rally the way that no political issue has been publicized in years, and the response we got is that Harvard is rejecting its apathetic past," Albert said...